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heteronormative

adjective

‘Many early homoerotic underground films and even the earliest of the homoerotic stag films enacted sodomy and fellatio through heteronormative gestures.’

‘If a man says he has a date and someone refers to the date as female, the assumer can be zinged as "heteronormative."’

‘This workshop will explore gender theory, grounded in a social constructivism paradigm, as a means of challenging heteronormative culture in the workplace.’

‘In the postemancipation period of American history, sexual exploration and deviations from white heteronormative codes represented avenues of personal freedom.’

‘In one way, Hopkins's novel resists containment by a conventional domestic fiction by complicating its portrayal of the heteronormative domestic sphere.’

‘They do not challenge the "heteronormative" order.’

‘Some of this work grows out of queer theory, which focuses on how young gay men engage with heteronormative discourses.’

‘Many in the black arts community in Los Angeles were particularly offended by the preponderance of images of homosexuality and the nonidealized (in the heteronormative sense) portrayals of black masculinity.’

‘I am not going to apologise for what may appear to be more heteronormative homo-social blindness to one's own horizon of intelligibility.’

‘In this article, I argue that the field of composition studies is heteronormative.’

‘Then I was thinking I shouldn't impose my heteronormative judgements on people.’

‘Each narrative feeds on a construct intricately allied to a vision of a transgressive, female, sexual body through which a masculine, heteronormative hermeneutic might be applied.’

‘Part one focuses on the "absurdity" of medieval hetero-normative sexuality with the authors attempting to explore other types of sexual behaviour.’